HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim (bbc.co.uk)

247 points by vinni2 on Aug 5, 2022 | 297 comments

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Cancer in the Cold (science.org)

247 points by _Microft on Aug 12, 2022 | 99 comments

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FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants (arstechnica.com)

246 points by gamblor956 on Aug 10, 2022 | 332 comments

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The AI Art Apocalypse (alexanderwales.com)

246 points by nkurz on Aug 16, 2022 | 324 comments

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Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images (cnn.com)

246 points by pseudolus on Aug 31, 2022 | 153 comments

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Risk Everything (2007) (web.archive.org)

246 points by sutro on Aug 23, 2022 | 134 comments

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In-browser retro-futuristic tank game, open source (synthblast.com)

246 points by brianrisk on Aug 7, 2022 | 62 comments

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HBO Max pulls nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ episodes (nytimes.com)

245 points by carride on Aug 21, 2022 | 290 comments

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Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals (phys.org)

245 points by pseudolus on Aug 23, 2022 | 186 comments

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The strength of the strong force (phys.org)

245 points by gumby on Aug 10, 2022 | 147 comments

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IPv6 support for cloning Git repositories from GitHub (github.com)

245 points by stargrave on Aug 24, 2022 | 78 comments

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The Making of Prince of Persia [pdf] (jordanmechner.com)

245 points by gtsnexp on Aug 21, 2022 | 49 comments

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New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests (hms.harvard.edu)

244 points by CharlesW on Aug 18, 2022 | 194 comments

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OpenArt: “Pinterest” for Dalle-2 images and prompts (openart.ai)

243 points by cocokechun on Aug 24, 2022 | 99 comments

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Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving (wired.com)

242 points by WithinReason on Aug 24, 2022 | 363 comments

466.

Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside (mgaudet.ca)

242 points by pvsukale3 on Aug 10, 2022 | 139 comments

467.

Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers

242 points by sneek_ on Aug 31, 2022 | 137 comments

468.

Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make (justine.lol)

242 points by jart on Aug 7, 2022 | 75 comments

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Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing (theartnewspaper.com)

241 points by boredemployee on Aug 7, 2022 | 320 comments

470.

Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

241 points by jinglejangley on Aug 30, 2022 | 220 comments

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AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage (nbcnews.com)

240 points by metadat on Aug 18, 2022 | 244 comments

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How SQLite scales read concurrency (fly.io)

240 points by pkilgore on Aug 24, 2022 | 69 comments

473.

What is TTY? (sobyte.net)

240 points by arunc on Aug 13, 2022 | 40 comments

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals book – Part II (postgrespro.com)

240 points by rrampage on Aug 25, 2022 | 19 comments

475.

The Merge (ethereum.org)

238 points by kristianpaul on Aug 20, 2022 | 391 comments

476.

Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?

238 points by neverminder on Aug 9, 2022 | 280 comments

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Skin exposure to UVB light induces a skin-brain-gonad axis and sexual behavior (cell.com)